A Profile of Poverty in Edmonton: 2024 — Edmonton Social Planning Council

Original source: https://edmontonsocialplanning.ca/2024/09/06/a-profile-of-poverty-in-edmonton-2024/ Report PDF: https://edmontonsocialplanning.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/A-profile-of-poverty-in-Edmonton-2024_final-version.pdf Retrieved: 2026-07-04 (Note: ESPC domain now 301-redirects to socialimpactcollective.ca; figures below via ESPC/Edmonton Community Foundation summaries and the 2024 report.)

Headline: "at least 1 out of 10 or 119,950 people in the city are experiencing poverty" (ESPC 2024 profile, per Edmonton Community Foundation summary). The report covers housing, food security, recreation, mental health, employment and income.

Historical baseline for the trend (CBC, "1 in 8 Edmontonians live below poverty line," reporting ESPC 2015 profile): as of 2015, roughly 1 in 8 Edmontonians in poverty; 1 in 5 children under 18; 1 in 3 in single-parent families. CBC 2015: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/1-in-8-edmontonians-live-below-poverty-line-report-finds-1.2900692

Framing: poverty described by ESPC as "a persistent challenge to living a dignified life for too many" — persistent through the entire Janz/Knack council era, not resolved.